Ariane 42L launched PanAmSat 4 (PAS-4), an HS-601-bus commercial communications satellite carrying C- and Ku-band transponders for pay-TV and telecom services over the Indian Ocean region, from Kourou.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.4 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 13 Ariane 42L flights
- Date and time
- 24 September 1995, 00:06 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 42L
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 2, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1995-049
- Launches in 1995
- 54th of 80
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